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Use cross-references

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Use cross-references

- [Instructor] Cross-references have a lot going for them. They allow you to create clickable links between different pieces of content in your documents, and they're also dynamic. So when the content on one end changes, the other end can be updated with just a click. And they're widely supported. They work in every kind of interactive document that we'll see in this course, including both kinds of EPUB, PDF, and Publisher Online. So let's see how cross-references work. Our exercise file here is a digital magazine, and on page 12, there's a subscription form that we'd like people to use to subscribe. And what I'd like to do, is to add a cross-reference elsewhere in the document, that readers can click to jump to this subscription form. Something like you see on page 10, down here at the bottom, where it says, Enjoying this issue? See Don't Miss Out on a Sweet deal! on page 12. And to make this clickable, we could just use a regular old hyperlink with the page or the text on the form…

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